[lit-ideas] Re: small addendum to Matrix as philosophy

On 2004/11/27, at 0:46, Paul Stone wrote:

> This is the
> +PRIMARY+ objection I have to "intelligent design". It just doesn't 
> seem
> too intelligent. The ingenuity is marvelous, but most of that 
> ingenuity is
> to correct for the bad initial design (like in real life engineering
> projects) which have too much invested in them to scrap. The R&D and 
> things
> that are kept in make us work really looks to me like blind chance.


This is, of course, a nearly constant theme in the essays of Stephen 
Gould. The evidence of evolution lies not in features well-adapted to 
an organism's current environment but in those odd bits that are left 
over or modified from earlier adaptations.


John McCreery

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